Bread the staff of life

by: American Tract Society

Publication date: 1829

Topics: Chapbooks -- Specimens., Chapbooks -- United States -- New York -- 19th century, McGill University Library Digitized Title, McGill Library's Chapbook Collection, Chapbooks

Publisher: New-York : Published by the American Tract Society, 144 Nassau-street

Collection: mcgilluniversitychapbook; mcgilluniversity; toronto

Contributor: McGill University Library

Language: English

16 p. : ill. ; 98 x 65 mm.

Brown printed, pictorial wrappers

Series number from front wrapper

Series list for Series 2, v. 2 on back wrapper

The American Tract Society published at 144 Nassau St. from 1827 to 1832; Series 2 was first published in 1829

Pages 4-16 also numbered: 244-256

First sentence: "[There are a great many little boys and girls, who eat bread every day, but they do not know what it is made from, or how it is made."

Includes 11 woodcuts

Addeddate: 2013-06-27 18:01:16

Callnumber: RBD BOUR PN970 A4 B7 1829 Rare Books/Special Collections - Sheila R. Bourke Collection (McLennan Bldg, 4th floor)

Identifier: McGillLibrary-PN970_A4_B7_1829-976

Identifier-ark: ark:/13960/t7cr7g728

Note: Brown printed, pictorial wrappers.
Series number from front wrapper.
Series list for Series 2, v. 2 on back wrapper.
The American Tract Society published at 144 Nassau St. from 1827 to 1832; Series 2 was first published in 1829.
Pages 4-16 also numbered: 244-256.
First sentence: "[There are a great many little boys and girls, who eat bread every day, but they do not know what it is made from, or how it is made."
Includes 11 woodcuts.